. >> mr. simon. >> my name is rita, i'm here to contest the high school my daughter was sent to. we live 11 blocks from george washington. she went sent to an unsafe school. she said she is not going to go to this school. please consider it from the bottom of my heart. please reassign my daughter. it is equal to be thrown in the lottery for the kids who careless. why do my daughter have to be punished. we live in richmond for a purpose. i'm a nurse. i'm working in a hospital saving other people's live. i'm asking you, maybe you could give me an opportunity to learn. she is there to learn. thank you. >> good evening. my name is nancy and i am here on behalf of the bay view community. i have always been here the reason why i am here is because i feel i need to stand up for my community. if no one speaks up, you will never hear our voices. they are not complaints but they are concerns. historically, the bay view community has been under served. that did not begin in august of 20 2010. i received a disturbing email. maybe that's what it will take for the board to come out and hear wh

. >> how much have you invested in renewable energy, mr. simon? >> and i will get to that, mr.chairman. >> i only have five minutes. what is the investment in renewable energy? please. >> recognizing that we needed to do something of a great magnitude, we initiated the global climate and energy project at stanford university, which is about... >> how much money are .. >> about $100 million. >> $100 million? but you made $40 billion last year. >> mr. chairman, putting more money into something does not necessarily equal progress. >> well, shell... >> exxon would tell you that they are watching the development of a whole panoply of renewable energy technologies, but that they don't think that any of those technologies have gotten to the point of economic viability. yet, meanwhile, exxon will do what exxon knows best how to do, which is run around the world trying to pull oil out of the ground. >> smith: the consequences can be very negative. in recent years, exxonmobil, chevron, conoco-phillips and shell have all put down stakes in the canadian tar sands. there's a lot of oil her

mr. simons has said he will make his office available. we are going to go see that your pay continues. we will be in the adjournment until the votes are concluded. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> we will come to order. thank you for your patience. >> i want to pick up on the issue of readiness. as i have heard from folks in my district, those who have recently retired and those who are on active duty, one of the elements they bring up to me is an issue of readiness. looking at the past survey that was done, if you look at the survey results you get back from those men and women who serve in combat zones, you see the results are different from those serving in the other capacities. that begs the question that, as we are going forward and looking at how this policy is put in place, are we going to expect from you all the proper due diligence to make sure that evaluations take place that are rigorous and that really look at our readiness capability and that make sure that we understand that if there are pr

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of my guest in the studio today is simon right the director of infrastructure utilities and publicly on the london two thousand and twelve olympic delivery authority mr wright well we've already talked. about have. connections with the with the beijing olympics about using or not using some of the expertize expertise there that you've learned from the chinese how though the russians who are getting ready for it will appear in two years r.t. have two years in sochi this will be winter but but anyhow are they interested in using some of your own or know how some of your expertise are you ready to share absolutely one of the reasons to be here this week is to do precisely the delegations and such you have already been to london we hosted a number of from senior officials from the organizing committee in london and we've heard long and detailed discussions with them and they've asked a lot of questions we try to give them pointers and to tell her exactly what we're doing and to let them to choose whether they elect to make use of any of that so we're very willing to share i think each city ought to be prepared to share the learning and we're absolutely g

mr. nice guy. "look at that baseball player," you know. "he's not just a superstar in the field, but off the field doing this." i don't... i can care less. >> simonat people think about you? >> albert pujols: no, not really. >> simon: albert says his devotion comes right out of his religion. he is devout, and as straight laced as they come in baseball. do you smoke? >> albert pujols: nope. >> simon: drink? >> albert pujols: no, never have. >> simon: curse? >> albert pujols: once in a while. ( laughter ) >> simon: not often. >> albert pujols: yeah. >> simon: baseball has lost some of its allure over the last decade because of steroids. and more than a few people look at albert and ask, can he be that good and totally clean? but he's never failed a drug test and has said he's willing to be tested every day. he stands by that statement. given what's happened to baseball in the public's mind over the last several years, how important is albert to the game? >> gammons: he's really important as the face of baseball. and he is the primary face. we're looking at history. he's an icon. and we should appreciate it, because there's never been anything that'

mrs. obama and their girls along with members of giffords' staff, including two who were injured in january's shooting rampage. pam simon for the shulgs endevour, a 14 day mission to deliver a particle physics and spare parts to the space station. the last shuttle mission flown by atlantis is slated for june. >>> this is commander kelly's fourth schultz mission. he has already logged 38 days in space. he and congresswoman giffords were married back in 2007. >> all right, tom. live for us at the kennedy space center. thanks, tom. it is 8:07. back to matt and meredith in london. >> thank you so much. what a wonderful sight to see gabby giffords climbing those stairs. >> so encouraging, and we hope she enjoys that. it will be an amazing experience for her and her family tomorrow. let us get a check of the weather, and that has been the big story back in the states. al is at our london bureau this morning. al, good morning again. >> good morning, matt and meredith. the good news is weather looks pretty good for the shuttle launch tomorrow, so that's good news. as far as our current weather is concerned. that system p that c